Archive for October, 2005

Halloween Blog Support Party!

Filed under: Events | Music — by admin 10/31/2005 @ 8:00:14 PM

Be Afraid! Be Very Afraid!
Scary Times deserve a Scary Party.
Join us and get spooked for a good cause!

Ruth … [Keep reading >>]

Alito: Who Wants a Fight?

Filed under: FrontPage | Law — by Will Kirkland 10/31/2005 @ 5:47:49 PM

Guess you know who needs to hear from you.

Neutral: Snowe (R-ME), Feingold (D-WS), Clinton (D-NY)

Political Wire: Who Wants a Fight?

The Way to Defeat Alito: Women … [Keep reading >>]

To My Son on his Twenty-first Birthday

Filed under: Essay | FrontPage — by Marty Krasney 10/31/2005 @ 1:42:04 PM

An Open Letter to My Son on his Twenty-first Birthday

As I contemplate the arrival of your twenty-first birthday, I do so with enormous ambivalence. What I’m feeling is not … [Keep reading >>]

Samuel Alito’s America

Filed under: Bush Administration | FrontPage | Law — by Will Kirkland 10/31/2005 @ 8:41:41 AM

Bush’s little Camp David regrouping weekend brought forth the non unexpected nomination of Joseph Altio to replace the failed Harriet Mier nomination to the Supreme Court. Here is a … [Keep reading >>]

Save Public Media in Marin: A Time to Act

Filed under: Action! | FrontPage | Media — by Bob Meyer 10/31/2005 @ 8:36:46 AM

[Media Action Marin, a k a MAM, is doing some of the most effective activist work
anywhere in the Bay Area. If you are looking for someplace to put all that ... [Keep reading >>]

Food Aid: Deal With the Devil

Filed under: Critical Voices | FrontPage — by Bob Zuber 10/31/2005 @ 5:19:52 AM

For the past few years, UN agencies, community supported agriculture groups and others have urged the Bush administration to sanction the purchase of more local produce (ie. Ugandan corn) to … [Keep reading >>]

The Plame Affair: The Real Investigation To Come

Filed under: Bush Administration | Critical Voices | FrontPage — by Bob Zuber 10/31/2005 @ 5:09:43 AM

Now that Libby has been indicted for perjury, says the Madison (WI) Capital Times, the real investigation can commence in earnest: “The simple fact is that, if Patrick Fitzgerald wants … [Keep reading >>]

Clinton to Dems: Don’t Fear Tough Issues

Filed under: Democrats | FrontPage — by Will Kirkland 10/30/2005 @ 10:51:03 PM

Sez Bill:

“You can’t say ‘Please don’t be mean to me. Please let me win sometimes.’ Give me a break here,” Clinton said. “If you don’t want to fight for the … [Keep reading >>]

George W Bush: Home Alone

Filed under: Bush Administration | FrontPage | Republicans — by Will Kirkland 10/30/2005 @ 10:13:44 PM

Sidney Blumenthal looks at the defection of GOP elders from Bush the Younger.

“Now the old establishment is faded. Its remnants largely consist of his father’s superannuated retinue. Not even the … [Keep reading >>]

Torture Trial | El Salvador

Filed under: FrontPage | Torture — by Will Kirkland 10/30/2005 @ 9:58:43 PM

“MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Victims of El Salvador’s bloody civil war are preparing to tell a federal jury about the torture they endured and deaths they witnessed more than two … [Keep reading >>]

Vietnam | Gulf of Tonkin

Filed under: FrontPage | War — by Will Kirkland 10/30/2005 @ 9:44:29 PM

The purported attacks by the Vietnamese on two American destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964 was THE pivot point of the US war in Vietnam. Guess what?

“The … [Keep reading >>]

Rosa Parks

Filed under: FrontPage | Heroes — by Will Kirkland 10/30/2005 @ 8:50:02 PM

“I was awe-struck. The spirituality of what she represents was palpable in the room. The significance of what she did has meant more to me as an adult than it … [Keep reading >>]

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